"Lot Umah Am" or "The Sea is My Home", one of the 2 films produced for the FreedomFilmFest 2011 film competition is now online.

Its a documentary about the Indigenous Orang Seletar living on the Straits of Johor whose livelihood and way of life is threatened by the development process in the area. This documentary was screened in many states throughout Malaysia as part of the FFF premiere roadshow including screenings in Johor Bharu and also in the community musuem of the Orang Seletar in Kg Temun recently.

It generated a lot of discussion amongst the community and also it gave the orang Seletar an outlet to voice their concerns.

On December 15, 2011 a group of about 500 Orang Seletar made a historic protest outside the Johor state assembly in Kota Iskandar, Johor, to voice their anger over the transfer of their ancestral land to developers of the Iskandar Malaysia project along the Johor Straits.

"Rapid development in densely populated flood plains, flood-prone areas or hill-slopes, together with environmental degradation, particularly deforestation, increased the vulnerability to floods and landslides," the report said.

It added that while Malaysian floods were not as bad as Thailand's, they still had a potential of causing massive economic losses.

More than 600 people have died in floods swamping more than half of Thailand's 76 provinces, marking it the worst the country has experienced in nearly 70 years.

50,000 in Johor evacuated

Floods Thailand started in mid-2011, and are currently ongoing, with an estimated US$45 billion in losses.

Though nowhere as serious as Thailand, Malaysia was still prone to serious floods. In February 2011, more than 50,000 people in Johor were evacuated after floods hit the state.